Lifecycles, support systems, and generational flows: patterns and change

Population Aging and the Generational Economy: A Global Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 79-106

  Lee, Ronald ^a   Mason, Andrew ^b,c  

^a Center on the Economics and Demography of Aging   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c EAST WEST CENTER   (United States)

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